The Irish standard., 1887-07-02
CATHOLIC NEWS.
Religious Notes /.

RELIGIOUS Notes.
Eleven convicts were baptized in the
Catholic church at the Columbus, o.,
penitentiary recently.
Eight of the fifteen adults recently
confirmed at st. Lawrence O'Toole's,
st. Louis were converts.
There are great many Hungarian
Catholics in Cleveland, for whom the
erection of church will soon be ne
cessity.
The first Synod of the .dioceses Of
Kansas and ST. Joseph convened in the
cathedral in Kansas City the week be-
fore last.
The conference of Archbishops which
Cardinal Gibbons has called will, it is
expected, take place at Baltimore in a
couple of weeks.
Cardinal Gibbons has intimated that
the prospective Catholic university will
be located in New York and not in
Washington, as at first proposed.
If the plans for the new Brooklyn
cathedral are carried out it will be a
beautiful building. 1t willtake several
years and several millions to finish it.
In the communal elections at Rome
last week the clerical candidates polled
two thousand votes more than were
ever cast by the clericals IN previous
elections.
There are eleven German churches in
Brooklyn, one French and one Polish.
The majority Of the pastors are Irish
Americans, and come from the Niagara
seminary.
Mgr. Rompolla, who has just been
nominated Papal Secretary of State, has
been chiefly noted for his learning and
piety, and has never taken any conspic-
uous part in politics.
It is understood that the New York
Diocesan Synod, at which the DEGREES
of the Baltimore Council will be pro-
mulgated, will be held at the time of the
annual retreat in August.
The Trappists at Maritburg, Eastern
Africa, are working. with great sue
cess both in various industries aud in
agriculture. They contemplate found
ing and editing Catholic journal like
wise.
The new clock of st. Joseph's church
st. Louis, is to sound the hours and
quarters sufficiently loud to be heard all
over the parish. A legend on the bell
reads: ''Soon the hours are past;
Blessed are you, if happy your last.'
The Capuchins of France and Bel
gium contemplate the foundation at
Lyons of central house and interna-
tional college where members of the
Order destined for the Eastern missions
will be instructed in the Oriental Ian
guages.
A beautiful crayon portrait of Arch
bishop Ryan, Of Philadelphia, viii
grace the walls of the new Mercantile
Library of St. Louis. 1t is the work Of
St. Louis artist, and pronounced by
judges singularly excellent work of
it's kind.
Very Rev. Thomas Smith has taken
up his headquarters at the Barrens.
This means that the Lazarists are to be
divided into two provinces, and that
Father Smith is to be the Visitor of
the Western Province.-St. Louis
Western Watchman.
Archbishop Kirby, Rector of the
Irish College, Rome. acknowledges the
receipt of e700; the offerings of the
Bishop, clergy and faithful of the dio-
cese of Down and Connor, Ireland, to-
ward the erection of the Church of St.
Patrick in the Eternal City.
Bavaria will have the honor of send
ing from Germany the first Catholic
missionaries to Western Africa. Some
weeks since, DR.. Peters, Director of the
Society of Western Africa, sent his
agent Baron Gravenrueth, orders to
open negotiations on the subject.
Mgr. Junger, Bishop of Nesqually,
lately made a flying visit to Puget
Sound, w. T. His object was to secure
land in the city of Seattle whereon to
erect, in the near future, another
church and Sisters school in the fast
growing metropolis of the Sound.
After a protracted consideration Of
the case the representatives of the Pro-
vince of Quebec adopted the bill incor-
porating the Jesuits. This gives the
society the right to possess, to receive,
to inherit. 1t is now on the footing of
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